This is a complete list of the operas of Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...

(1678–1741).

Vivaldi claimed to have composed 94 operas. In fact, fewer than 50 titles have been identified, of which the scores of 20 or so operas survive, wholly or in part. Moreover, the practice of reviving works under a different title and of creating pasticci

Pasticcio

In music, a pasticcio or pastiche is an opera or other musical work composed of works by different composers who may or may not have been working together, or an adaptation or localization of an existing work that is loose, unauthorized, or inauthentic.-Etymology:The term is first attested in the...

has confused musicologists.

All Vivaldi's works are described as dramma per musica

Dramma per musica

Dramma per musica is a term which was used by dramatists in Italy and elsewhere between the late-17th and mid-19th centuries...

, approximately equivalent to opera seria

Opera seria

Opera seria is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to c. 1770...

.

Key :
music completely lost
music preserved at least in part

RV	|Title	|Libretto	|Première date	|Place, theatre	Ottone in villa Ottone in villa Ottone in villa is an opera in three acts by Antonio Vivaldi to an Italian libretto by Domenico Lalli . It was Vivaldi's first opera and premiered on 17 May 1713 at the Teatro delle Grazie in Vicenza...	Domenico Lalli	May 1713	Vicenza Vicenza Vicenza , a city in north-eastern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione... , Teatro di Piazza
727	Orlando finto pazzo Orlando finto pazzo Orlando finto pazzo is an opera in three acts composed by Antonio Vivaldi to a libretto by Grazio Braccioli. The plot is based on an episode in Matteo Boiardo's unfinished the epic poem Orlando Innamorato...	Grazio Braccioli	November 1714	Venice Venice Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region... , Teatro Sant’Angelo
724	Nerone fatto Cesare Nerone fatto Cesare Nerone fatto Cesare is a lost dramma per musica by Antonio Vivaldi.-Performance history:The opera was first performed at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice during Carnival in 1715. It was revived for the Accademia, Brescia, at the 1716 Carnival.-Roles:...	Matteo Noris	Carnival 1715	Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo	pasticcio (Francesco Gasparini, Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, Carlo Francesco Pollarolo Carlo Francesco Pollarolo Carlo Francesco Pollarolo was an Italian composer, chiefly of operas. Born into a musical family, he became the cathedral organist of his home town of Brescia. In the 1680s he began composing operas for performance in nearby Venice. He wrote a total of 85 of them as well as 13 oratorios... , Vivaldi)
706	La costanza trionfante degl'amori e de gl'odii La costanza trionfante degl'amori e de gl'odii La costanza trionfante degl'amori e degl'odii is a dramma per musica by Antonio Vivaldi. The Italian libretto was by A Marchi.The opera was first performed at the Teatro San Moisè during carnival in 1716. It was revived for the same theatre at the Carnival of 1718, under the title Artabano,...	Antonio Marchi	Carnival 1716	Venice, Teatro San Moisè Teatro San Moisè The Teatro San Moisè was an opera house in Venice, active from 1640 to 1818. It was in a prominent location near the Palazzo Giustinian and the church of San Moisè at the entrance to the Grand Canal....	reworked as Artabano, re dei Parti (RV 701) in 1718, then as Doriclea (RV 708) in 1732
700	Arsilda, regina di Ponto Arsilda, regina di Ponto Arsilda, regina di Ponto is a dramma per musica by Antonio Vivaldi. The opera was first performed at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice on 27 or 28 October 1716.-Roles:...	Domenico Lalli	27 or 28 October 1716	Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
719	L'incoronazione di Dario L'incoronazione di Dario L'incoronazione di Dario is a dramma per musica by Antonio Vivaldi with an Italian libretto by Adriano Morselli. The opera was first performed at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice on 23 January 1717.-Roles:-Recordings:...	Adriano Morselli	23 January 1717	Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
737	Tieteberga Tieteberga Tieteberga is a lost dramma per musica by Antonio Vivaldi. The Italian libretto was by A M Lucchini.The opera was first performed at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice on 16 October 1717. The opera included nine arias by other composers.-Roles:...	Antonio Maria Lucchini	16 October 1717	Venice, Teatro San Moisè
Anh 58	Il vinto trionfante del vincitore	Antonio Marchi	Autumn 1717	Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo	pasticcio, possibly with some music by Vivaldi
701	Artabano, re dei Parti	Antonio Marchi	Carnival 1718	Venice, Teatro San Moisè	reworking of La costanza trionfante (RV 706)
699	Armida al campo d'Egitto Armida al campo d'Egitto Armida al campo d'Egitto is an opera in three acts by Antonio Vivaldi to a libretto by Giovanni Palazzo. It was first performed during the Carnival season of 1718 at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice...	Giovanni Palazzi	Carnival 1718	Venice, Teatro San Moisè. Further performances in Venice on 26 December 1730 and 12 February 1738.	reworked as Gl’inganni per vendetta (RV 720) in 1720
732	Scanderbeg Scanderbeg (opera) Scanderbeg is an opera in three acts composed by Antonio Vivaldi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Salvi. It was first performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence on June 22, 1718 to mark the re-opening of the theatre to public performances...	Antonio Salvi	22 June 1718	Florence Florence Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area.... , Teatro della Pergola Teatro della Pergola The Teatro della Pergola is a historic opera house in Florence, Italy. It is located in the centre of the city on the Via della Pergola, from which the theatre takes its name...
736	Teuzzone	Apostolo Zeno Apostolo Zeno Apostolo Zeno was a Venetian poet, librettist, journalist, and man of letters.-Early life:Apostolo Zeno was born of Cretan Greek descent in Venice in 1669...		Mantua Mantua Mantua is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province of the same name. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family, made it one of the main artistic, cultural and notably musical hubs of Northern Italy and the country as a whole... , Teatro Arciducale
738	Tito Manlio Tito Manlio Tito Manlio is an opera in three acts by Antonio Vivaldi, to a libretto by Matteo Noris. It was written in celebration of the marriage of Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt , the governor of Mantua, which he had announced at Christmas. Vivaldi quickly composed the opera within five days...	Matteo Noris	Carnival 1719	Mantua, Teatro Arciducale
778	Tito Manlio	Matteo Noris	Carnival 1720	Rome, Teatro della Pace	pasticcio. Act III only by Vivaldi.
704	La Candace, o siano Li veri amici	Francesco Silvani and Domenico Lalli	Carnival 1720	Mantua, Teatro Arciducale
720	Gl’inganni per vendetta	Giovanni Palazzi or Domenico Lalli	1720	Vicenza, Teatro delle Grazie	reworking of Armida al campo d’Egitto (RV 699)
739	La verità in cimento La verità in cimento La verità in cimento is an opera by Antonio Vivaldi to a libretto by Giovanni Palazzi. The opera, which is Vivaldi's 13th, was premiered during the Carnival at Venice in 1720. The work is listed as RV739 in the Vivaldi catalogue....	Giovanni Palazzi	26 October (?) 1720	Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
715	Filippo re di Macedonia	Domenico Lalli	27 December 1720	Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo	pasticcio
734	La Silvia La Silvia La Silvia is an dramma pastorale per musica in three acts by Antonio Vivaldi to an Italian libretto by Enrico Bissari. It was first performed on 28 August 1721 at the Teatro Regio Ducale in Milan on the occasion of the birthday celebrations of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth Christine, wife of...	Enrico Bissari	28 August 1721	Milan Milan Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,... , Reggio Ducale
710	Ercole su'l Termodonte Ercole su'l Termodonte Ercole su'l Termodonte is a baroque Italian opera in three acts. In 1723, it became the sixteenth opera set to music by Antonio Vivaldi. Its catalogue number is RV 710. The libretto was written by Antonio Salvi . The opera was premiered January 23, 1723 in Rome's Teatro Capranica...	Giacomo Francesco Bussani	January 1723	Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half... , Teatro Capranica
717	Giustino	Nicolò Beregan / Pietro Pariati	Carnival 1724	Rome, Teatro Capranica
740	La virtù trionfante dell’amore, e dell’odio, overo Il Tigrane	Francesco Silvani	Carnival 1724	Rome, Teatro Capranica	pasticcio (only Act II by Vivaldi)
721	L’inganno trionfante in amore	Matteo Noris	Autumn 1725	Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
707	Cunegonda	Agostino Piovene	29 January 1726	Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
712	La fede tradita e vendicata	Francesco Silvani	16 February 1726	Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
Anh 55	La tirannia castigata	Francesco Silvani	Carnival 1726	Prague Prague Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million... , Sporck Theater Franz Anton von Sporck Franz Anton von Sporck, Count was a German-speaking literatus and patron of the arts who lived in the province of Bohemia in what is now the Czech Republic...
709	Dorilla in Tempe Dorilla in Tempe Dorilla in Tempe is a melodramma eroico pastorale in three acts by composer Antonio Vivaldi with an Italian libretto by Antonio Maria Lucchini. The opera premiered at the Teatro San Angelo in Venice on 9 November 1726...	Antonio Maria Lucchini	9 November 1726	Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo	pasticcio
722	Ipermestra	Antonio Salvi	25 January 1727	Florence, Teatro della Pergola
711	Farnace Farnace Farnace , is the title of several 18th-century operas set to various librettos. The earliest version was written by Lorenzo Morari with music by Antonio Caldara, first performed at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice in 1703...	Antonio Maria Lucchini	10 February 1727	Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
735	Siroe, re di Persia	Metastasio Metastasio Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.-Early life:...	Ascension 1727	Reggio Emilia Reggio Emilia Reggio Emilia is an affluent city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 170,000 inhabitants and is the main comune of the Province of Reggio Emilia.... , Teatro Pubblico
728	Orlando furioso Orlando furioso (Vivaldi) Orlando furioso is an opera in three acts by Antonio Vivaldi to an Italian libretto by Grazio Braccioli, based on the poem of the same name by Ariosto. The first performance of the opera was at Teatro San Angelo, Venice, in 1727....	Grazio Braccioli	Autumn 1727	Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
730	Rosilena ed Oronta	Giovanni Palazzi	Carnival 1728	Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
702	L'Atenaide	Apostolo Zeno	29 December 1728	Florence, Teatro della Pergola, 29 December 1728
697	Argippo Argippo Argippo is an opera by Antonio Vivaldi that premiered in the opera theater of Count Franz Anton von Sporck in Prague in 1730.-Rediscovery:...	Domenico Lalli	Autumn 1730	Prague, Sporck Theater	seven arias were rediscovered in Regensburg Regensburg Regensburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. To the east lies the Bavarian Forest. Regensburg is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate...  by Ondrej Macek
696	Alvilda regina de' Goti	Giulio Cesare Corradi	Spring 1731	Prague, Sporck Theater	only some arias by Vivaldi, probably from other operas
733	Semiramide	Francesco Silvani and Domenico Lalli	Carnival 1731	Mantua, Teatro Arciducale
714	La fida ninfa	Francesco Scipione	Carnival 1732	Verona Verona Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona... , Teatro Filarmonico
708	Doriclea	Antonio Marchi	1732	Prague, Sporck Theater	reworking of La costanza trionfante (RV 706)
723	Motezuma Motezuma Motezuma is an opera in three acts by Antonio Vivaldi with an Italian libretto by Girolamo Giusti. The first performance was given in the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice on 14 November 1733...	Girolamo Alvise Giusti	14 November 1733	Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
725	L'Olimpiade L'Olimpiade (Vivaldi) L'Olimpiade is a dramma per musica in three acts that was composed by Antonio Vivaldi. The opera uses an Italian libretto by Pietro Metastasio that was originally written for Antonio Caldara's 1733 opera of the same name...	Metastasio	17 February 1734	Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
695	L’Adelaide	Antonio Salvi	Carnival 1735	Verona, Teatro Filarmonico
703	Il Tamerlano Bajazet (opera) Bajazet is an Italian opera composed by Antonio Vivaldi in 1735. Its libretto was written by Agostino Piovene. It was premiered in Verona, during the Carnival season of that year. This opera is presented in 3 acts, with a three-movement sinfonia as an introduction... (Il Bajazet)	Agostino Piovene	Carnival 1735	Verona, Teatro Filarmonico	pasticcio
718	Griselda Griselda (Vivaldi) Griselda is a dramma per musica in three acts that was composed by Antonio Vivaldi. The opera uses a revised version of the 1701 Italian libretto by Apostolo Zeno that was based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron . The celebrated Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni was hired to adapt the libretto...	Apostolo Zeno / Carlo Goldoni Carlo Goldoni Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty...	18 May 1735	Venice, Teatro San Samuele Teatro San Samuele Teatro San Samuele was an opera house and theatre located at the Rio del Duca, between Campo San Samuele and Campo Santo Stefano, in Venice. One of several important theatres built in that city by the Grimani family, the theatre opened in 1656 and operated continuously until a fire destroyed the... , 18 May 1735
698	Aristide	Carlo Goldoni	Autumn 1735	Venice, Teatro San Samuele
716	Ginevra principessa di Scozia	Antonio Salvi	17 January 1736	Florence, Teatro della Pergola
705	Catone in Utica	Metastasio	26 May 1737	Verona, Teatro Filarmonico
726	L’oracolo in Messenia	Apostolo Zeno	30 December 1737	Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
777	Il giorno felice	?	1737	Venice
731	Rosmira (Rosmira fedele)	Silvio Stampiglia	27 January 1738	Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo	pasticcio arranged by Vivaldi of music by Hasse Johann Adolph Hasse Johann Adolph Hasse was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a considerable quantity of sacred music... , Pergolesi Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was an Italian composer, violinist and organist.-Biography:Born at Iesi, Pergolesi studied music there under a local musician, Francesco Santini, before going to Naples in 1725, where he studied under Gaetano Greco and Francesco Feo among others... , Handel George Frideric Handel George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music... , etc.)
713	Feraspe	Francesco Silvani	1739	Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo